When All Else Fails

<p>A wealthy land developer suddenly converts to evangelical Christianity which flummoxes his wife a heavy drinking socialite and daughter an outstanding high school tennis player and sends them into a series of unexpected events with an agnostic tennis coach a closet Algerian Muslim tennis player and underworld figures threatening to bankrupt the land developer. The often profane and comic novel is not moralistic or cautionary but offers a realistic glimpse into events when strong religious feelings engulf a family and send them on a journey no one expects.</p>